who has the recipe for the perfect coffee quickbread or loaf cake? (coffee as ingredient not coffee as accompaniment)

Writing is rewriting and rewriting and rewriting...

Mystified by how to approach an academic journal editor? Need help getting through the "revise and resubmit" doldrums? Our next #RSVPDigiEvent can help! Join us next Friday, Nov. 21 and hear from the editors of top #Victorian journals on "How to Get Published in a Academic Journal": buff.ly/ydJkKAK

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“English Studies as Victorian Aftermath” v demure v mindful of our time period’s importance 🌈💫💕

Sometimes it just feels like we are all eggs being broken for someone else’s omelette.

we’re on @navsa2025.bsky.social

I’m pretty pleased by this riff on a @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social / @umdbooklab.bsky.social print I worked up for my “Writing with Robots” class’ visit to @skeuomorphpress.org today

Especially on the back of reading Hannah Frydman's excellent Between the Sheets — I love her analysis of the classified page as “a de facto site of ‘illegitimate’ or extralegal commerce”

Just saw this and looking forward to reading it!

chicago! how can faculty make sense of the rapidly shifting economic and epistemic conditions for learning? how should faculty exercise governance and exert expertise over expensive partnerships between universities and technology companies? join us for Theory At The Bargaining Table Dec 4!

Today marks publication day for my book When Fitness Went Global! It explores how physical culture travelled the world, how ideas about health circulated across continents, and how we arrived at today’s global landscape. Bloomsbury have it at 10% off today: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/when-fitn...

A truly excellent book, highly recommended thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/s...

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

posting the full ToC for those who'd like to see it

So many fantastic contributions to this issue, thanks @juliestonepeters.bsky.social and Lindsay Stern for organizing it!

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

If you're in London and at a loose end this Saturday (15 Nov) I'm doing some walking tours of Seven Dials with the wonderful @stanfordstravel.bsky.social. Sign up link below. Come for the coffee, stay for the whistle stop tour of the Dials and sideways look at the history of 1920s and 1930s London.

New post on #FindTheMidwife today. Sasha Turner talks with us about a 17th century enslaved Barbadian midwife. www.findthemidwife.com/sasha-turner. Thanks Dr. Turner!

Not forgotten! And this is a genuinely good poem.

Aurora visible in the middle of Chicago

Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!

How many monkeys died for the polio vaccine? One million. Excellent reporting and solid analysis by Ava Kofman. It’s genuinely shocking to learn just how much contemporary scientific research depends on animal suffering on a massive scale

I made this new personal website so basic, so non-designed (almost anti-designed), so that all of you could feel better about your own websites! It’s a public service! Pls enjoy all my pdfs. www.josephrezek.com

My brilliant friend @katewomersley.com worked on this course on integrating sex and gender in health research and policy. Please share widely. www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-servic...

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library (edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November) Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Friends in or familiar with London and Paris: any tips on affordable accommodations? I've checked out a few hostels in London, but they seem to be booked already for the week I'll be there. I've never been to France before so I'm not sure how easy it is to get around.

I cannot wait to read Sarah's book! Buy it here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without... (Meanwhile, I don't mean to brag, but my editors also call my writing "years—decades—overdue.")

American and Canadian Studies at Notts have been so important for so long. Our colleagues there have a plan to save jobs and teaching provision and management are not considering it. Please sign and share.

As I wrote this, I was like what sort of fucking historian are you, GO AND FIND OUT (even if it from the lies people tell in local newspapers) ALLEGEDLY, it is so named because a thief hid some liquor in a pond there (!) and thus escaped EXECUTION

A proper holiday party is not a social occasion! It’s a department meeting in December!

I admit to having a different Victorian studies conference occupying my mind just this week, but man am I psyched for this, and deeply honored to be part of it. MVSA rules. I can’t wait. CINCY!

Same in our part of the city! And now for some hurried new snow boot shopping for my kid, who went to school in rain boots

This statement is always true.

The CPC statement is so gross.

Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO

Question for #histmed: what are your favourite continous histories of disease? By which I mean, there's been very little progress in atiology, treatment etc over a long period of time

Currently fluctuating between 4, 5 and 6

The humanism, the pain, the humour... a wonderful documentary heroically filmed and narrated by Pavel Talankin, now safely (i hope) in Prague. How great that it's on BBC iPlayer. Strongly recommend

These Frankenstein adaptations are getting wild 🤯

Really like this article on the circulation of the Marquis de Sade's works in C19 England, looking at everything from adaptation/imitation/influence to two-penny serial parts of Nouvelle Justine. www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...

"Until a year ago, only 2–3% of submissions were ultimately rejected by moderators, says Steinn Sigurðsson, an astrophysicist at Penn State University in University Park who is arXiv’s scientific director. But in the last year, that number has gone up to 10%."

“The resource over which they hold custody is of great worth to the country …Would Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and George Orwell, all erstwhile users of the British Library, have produced their masterpieces without this resource?” Imperilled culture - it really is. Such negligence.

📣 Save the date! Nominations for our annual Colby Book Prize opens next week on 15 November. To comply with tax laws, books must be nominated by somebody other than the author, so tell us about the best book YOU read on #19thC periodicals published in 2025. rs4vp.org/awards/colby...

Dear NYT: every godawful thing is "celebrated" by someone somewhere, but that is not how a neutral and informed person would characterize the overall reception to "The Double Helix." Not in 1968 and certainly not since.

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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters

here's my finds for the week: 1/2 - new #HistMed timeline by the Black Cultural Archives bsky.app/profile/sshm...

Love me some autumnal leaves on a misty morning 🍂